About this role
What you will do as a Senior Project Manager:
Core Responsibilities
- Effectively lead, plan and manage complex projects from ideation through to delivery.
- Develop and own project plans including significant milestones and deliverables ensuring resource availability and allocation. Resolving issues as they arise or getting ahead of them with mitigation
- Manage multiple complex projects concurrently, with a wide range of project stakeholders.
- Drive alignment by communicating project status, milestones and deliverables to project stakeholders distilling complexity into simple and concise updates with regular transparency provided to all stakeholders.
- Manage changes to the project scope, project plan and project costs using the appropriate project management approach and in a timely manner.
- Proactively manage expectations of project stakeholders through understanding the different needs of stakeholders based on their role and influence on the project.
- Responsible for influencing the overall project strategies and their impact on P&T.
- Actively manage project risks through a transparent communication style and a promotion of trust and competency. Putting mitigation actions in place to minimise risk.
- Maintain the internal project management tool.
Strategic Responsibilities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams within P&T and the wider business, building and maintaining consensus on the project plan and approach through the project to deliver quality outcomes in line with the plan.
- Support and contribute to the project intake process from ideation through to planning and delivery.
- Foster trust, openness and collaborative relationships with your colleagues.
- Support junior members of the team through coaching and mentoring.
- Champion and lead Continuous improvement in our ways of working and in our intake and project management processes.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- 10+ years’ project management experience, ideally within a technology/software environment.
- Extensive experience leading multiple complex technology projects end-to-end, working across Product, Engineering and wider business teams. Proven experience managing project plans, scope, dependencies, risks, resources and budgets, while influencing senior stakeholders and driving delivery in ambiguous, fast-paced environmentsStrong project management capability; formal PM qualification preferred.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile and project delivery methodologies.
- Proven experience managing multiple complex projects and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills, across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to manage ambiguity, solve complex problems and work independently with high accountability.
- Recognised Project Management qualification/certification preferred (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders